Amnesty - Rewarding Illegal Aliens With the Objective of Their Crime

'Dreamers' and Demons

1/31/2018 - Michelle Malkin Townhall.com

Xinran Ji, 24, had big dreams. But demons demolished them.

The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old "Dreamer" and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first jumped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji -- who was walking home from a study group after midnight.

No, it wasn't President Trump, ICE agents, Republicans or conservative talk show hosts who racially profiled Xinran Ji. It was "Dreamer" DelCarmen and his partners in crime: Alberto Ochoa, 17, Andrew Garcia, 18, and Alejandra Guerrero, 16. The gangsters targeted Ji because he was Asian and assumed he "must have money." Guerrero had sent Facebook messages about wanting to "flock" (rob) white and Chinese people. Off-campus neighborhoods around USC are dominated by Mexican Mafia affiliates that target foreign students and shake down local businesses owned by law-abiding immigrants.

"Dreamer" DelCarmen and his friends stalked Ji on a street corner in south central L.A. before bashing him in the head with a baseball bat and a wrench. The attack was caught on multiple security cameras. Ji managed to stagger home to his apartment, leaving a quarter-mile trail of blood behind him.

Sometime during the night, Xinran Ji died in his bed. And the aspirations of his family, who sacrificed everything to send him to America to pursue his studies, perished with him.

"Dreamer" DelCarmen and his friends drove off to a nearby beach to rob two more innocent people in a city and state that have defiantly declared themselves "sanctuaries" for people in the United States illegally -- not for the best and brightest like Xinran Ji, but for lawless barbarians like Jonathan DelCarmen.

"It's like heaven fell down," Ji's father told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli at Garcia's sentencing hearing.

"His life was taken by these demons," Ji's aunt added. "They robbed and killed an innocent youth with very vicious means, and this was inhuman."

Garcia received life in prison without the possibility of parole. Ji's parents' sentence was far worse: a brutal, violent and permanent separation from their only child. In Washington, D.C., however, some families matter more than others. And victims of indiscriminate open borders, like Xinran Ji, don't exist.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, proud promoter of sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants, led more than two dozen Democrats in turning the State of the Union address into "Take an Illegal Alien to Work Day."

Platitudes whitewash bloody reality.

"I want to be clear: DREAMers are Americans," declared Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., who invited an illegal alien from El Salvador who now works at Apple. "They contribute to our economy, our communities and our strength and stability as a nation."

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., brought a Mexican illegal alien, Cesar Montelongo, now enrolled in the M.D.-Ph.D. program at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

"I hope Cesar's presence reminds President Trump what's at stake in the debate over DACA: the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent young people who want to contribute to our country's future."

Democrats and pro-amnesty radicals protest any glint of sunlight shed on the destructive consequences of not enforcing our nation's immigration laws. They claim it's unfair to focus on single cases or "anecdotes," even as they promote DACA recipients as a holy, unassailable class of "honor roll students, star athletes, talented artists and valedictorians."

This propaganda, to which open-borders Republicans have fecklessly capitulated, is an offense to decency and truth. Xinran Ji was an innocent young person pursuing his educational dreams in America. He planned to return to China to use his knowledge to secure a better future for himself, his family and his community.

The blind beatification and elevation of illegal immigrant "Dreamers" above law-abiding native Americans, naturalized Americans, legal immigrants and their families will be the ruin of us all.

Multiculturalism is Caucasian Genocide

By Granting Amnesty, Are Republicans Signing Their Own Political Death Warrant?

1/29/2018 - Scott Morefield Townhall.com

On Friday, conservative actor James Woods let America know exactly what “#DACA is about” in one devastating tweet that included a meme depicting Senate Minority Schoolmarm Chuck Schumer ‘saying,’ “It’s very simple to understand actually – If Americans won’t vote for Democrats, then we’ll import people who will.” 

The tweet has since gone viral, and for good reason since it speaks to the heart of the immigration debate going on in America. Granted, even “Cryin’ Chuck” wouldn’t be so obvious as to say those exact words, but that doesn’t mean he and his fellow liberals aren’t thinking them. Nor does it mean the concept isn’t driving everything they do when it comes to shaping America’s immigration policy. It’s not often that one can speak of another’s motives with pure and unflinching certainty, but if there ever were such a time, determining liberal motives on immigration is indeed one of those rare cases. 

In an article entitled “A Permanent Democratic Majority” penned after the Obama wave election of 2008, Salon’s Alex Koppelman wrote: 

“The long-promised Latino realignment may have become reality. Coveted by Karl Rove, courted by George W. Bush, the fastest-growing sector of the American electorate stampeded toward the Democrats this November. New Mexico is only the most striking symbol of a nationwide trend that helped flip as many as seven states and 85 electoral votes into Obama's column. Latinos formed their largest share ever of the national electorate, 9 percent, and their numbers are poised to increase in every election to come. They also voted by their largest margin ever for the Democrats, 67 to 31 percent. If that pattern continues, the GOP is doomed to 40 years of wandering in a desert.”

Koppelman also noted that Salon’s experts “credited the Hispanic vote with delivering Colorado and Nevada to Obama.”

Thankfully, an Obama backlash that finally convinced red state voters to actually stop sending Democratic lawmakers to Congress as well Donald Trump’s ability to pick up three key Rust Belt states and eke out a victory in 2016 prevented that predicted ‘desert wandering’ from transpiring quite as expected. But that doesn’t mean Democrats aren’t playing the long game, nor does it mean they won’t eventually win it. 

Consider:

From 9 percent of the 2008 election, Hispanics made up 10 percent of America’s electorate in 2012 and 11 percent in 2016. That number will rise dramatically if 2-3 million DACA recipients are granted citizenship.

With all his pandering, George W. Bush only managed to win around 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, and “Amnesty” John McCain did ten points worse four years later. Generally, around two-thirds of Hispanics will vote Democratic in any given election. 

This trend is magnified in the West, where Hispanics comprise a greater percentage of the population. Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, all states George W. Bush carried in 2004, haven’t so much as leaned Republican since then.

For the first time in decades, Republicans picked up less than 50 percent of Arizona voters in 2016, only winning the state by less than four percentage points. In an article about the Hispanic voting bloc in the west penned before 2016’s election, the Colorado Independent predicted that Arizona could become a “battleground state” in 12 years.

It’ll likely be much sooner than that.

Texas, a state George W. Bush carried by 61.1 percent, was won by Trump by a relatively razor thin margin of 52.2 percent. Most pundits seem to agree that it’s only a matter of time before Texas turns blue. 

Texas... 

Let that sink in. 

And do we really need to go into what the hell has happened to California? 

No matter how you slice the data, anyone who studies these issues at any depth will agree that: 1.) Hispanics comprise an ever-growing share of the U.S. electorate, 2.) Hispanics tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, and 3.) Hispanics are a key reason for many states’ shift from red to blue in national elections.  

This is not to say Republicans shouldn’t try to win as many Hispanic voters as possible, as long as they do so using real, common-sense, conservative arguments and not political pandering. Nor is it to in any way disparage Hispanic voters who vote Republican (and often quite heroically, I might add, given today’s political climate) or even the Democrat-leaning majority of Hispanics. It’s their right, of course, to vote how they choose. However, it’s also America’s right to allow in and grant citizenship to whom it will.

There was once a time when Democrats stood for ordinary, blue-collar Americans. That time is long past, and has since been replaced by standing for everyone in the rest of the (Third) world, so long as they’re willing to come here and vote for their Big Government policies.

Victor Davis Hanson puts the shift at around 2010, writing, “At that point, around 2010 or so, the old Democratic and progressive admonitions about illegal immigration cutting the wages of the poor, impeding unionization, and siphoning away social welfare entitlements from the citizen poor were finally and completely jettisoned (along with the language once used by Jimmy Carter and the Clintons).”

Granted, as Democrats continue to garner an ever-declining percentage of America’s native-born voters, can anyone really blame them for trying to import, legalize, and naturalize as many people as possible from groups that historically vote for Big Government? 

Maybe not, but it doesn’t mean Republicans should allow them to get away with it. 

“Fredocons” (thank you, Kurt Schlichter) like Jeff Flake, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Karl Rove who think the GOP can somehow win a majority of Hispanics by adopting a liberal immigration policy should consider the words of the indefatigable Heather McDonald: “It is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond between Hispanics and the Democratic party, but the core Democratic principles of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy, and progressive taxation.”

In other words, in order to win a majority of Hispanics, Republicans would have to, well, become Democrats!

As President Trump and Republicans in Congress negotiate a deal on the children brought to America by their illegal immigrant parents, they should be reminded that, by granting millions of Democratic-leaning voters a path to citizenship in this country, they could very well be signing their own political death warrants.

And in the process, creating a “permanent Democratic majority” that will eventually bring America to its knees. 

An Outstanding Review of DACA, Shutdown and Fraud

6 Events That Prove Democrats’ Government Shutdown Over DACA Is A Fraud

January 22, 2018 Margot Cleveland - thefederalist.com

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) isn’t dead, and “dreamers” aren’t being deported, even though that’s the entire basis Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claims for causing the government shutdown. It’s the Great Democrat Deception of 2018.

The proof is in a petition the Department of Justice filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, seeking immediate review of a district court judge’s decision striking President Trump’s decision to let DACA run out when it expires. That petition details the facts of DACA no one is reporting.

Those facts lay bare the fraud underlying Democrats’ politically motivated, selective shuttering of the federal government. They insist the need to protect young illegal aliens from deportation is so urgent that temporarily funding the federal government must wait for Congress to legalize them.

Here are the facts. In a June 15, 2012, memorandum entitled “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,” the Department of Homeland Security announced its secretary would, “for humanitarian reasons or simply for [her] own convenience, . . . notify an alien of her decision to forbear from seeking his removal for a designated period.”

Under the 2012 policy, following a successful background check DHS would provide “certain young people who were brought to this country as children” a two-year commitment of “deferred action.” But DACA expressly “confer[red] no substantive right, immigration status or pathway to citizenship,” because “[o]nly the Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer these rights.”

Prior to 2012, Congress did not legislatively address the immigration status of illegal aliens brought to the United States as children, even though President Obama had a solid majority in the Senate and House following his 2008 victory. But now, ten years later, Democrats say there is an emergency about these illegals’ status that justifies shutting down the federal government.

Two years after that 2012 executive action, DHS unilaterally expanded DACA, “extending the deferred-action period from two to three years and by loosening the age and residency criteria.” DHS also created a new policy, DAPA—the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. DAPA deferred lawful action “for certain individuals who had a child who was a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.”

In response to DAPA and the expanded DACA, 26 states sued the federal government arguing that DHS violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) by issuing the regulations without complying with the notice-and-comment procedures, and exceeded its authority under the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA). A federal agreed, holding the Obama administration violated the APA and the INA.

The court issued a nationwide injunction barring the enforcement of DAPA and the expanded DAFA. In so holding, the district court stressed “Congress had repeatedly declined to enact legislation ‘closely resembl[ing] DACA and DAPA.’” But now, three years later, Democrats insist there is suddenly an emergency justifying shutting down the federal government.

In 2015, the Fifth Circuit upheld the decision striking DAPA and the expanded DACA policies. Yet Congress still did not act. But now Democrats say this continued situation constitutes an emergency justifying shutting down the federal government.

In 2016, in United States v. Texas, the Supreme Court left “in place the nationwide injunction against DAPA and the expansion of DACA.” Yet Congress still did not act. But now Democrats say there is an emergency justifying shutting down the federal government.

The original 2012 DACA remained in place until 2017, when the states that had sued to challenge DAPA and the expanded DACA policies “announced their intention to amend their complaint to challenge the original DACA policy,” asserting “that [f ]or the same reasons that DAPA and Expanded DACA’s unilateral Executive Branch conferral of eligibility for lawful presence and work authorization was unlawful, the original June 15, 2012 DACA memorandum is also unlawful.” The U.S. attorney general determined that the original DACA policy was unlawful and DHS concluded “it is clear that the June 15, 2012 DACA program should be terminated.”

As a result, on September 5, 2017, “DHS decided to wind down the original DACA policy in an orderly fashion,” announcing in a rescission memo that “the June 15, 2012 memorandum was “rescind[ed].” However, recognizing the “complexities associated with winding down the program,” DHS stated it would “provide a limited window in which it w[ould] adjudicate certain requests for DACA.”

Specifically, DHS would “adjudicate— on an individual, case-by-case basis—properly filed pending DACA renewal requests from current beneficiaries that have been accepted by the Department as of the date of this memorandum, and from current beneficiaries whose benefits will expire between the date of this memorandum and March 5, 2018 that have been accepted by the Department as of October 5, 2017.’”

Following the September 2017 rescission memo, Congress did nothing. But all of a sudden, Democrats insist there is an emergency justifying shutting down the federal government.

While Congress did nothing, on January 9, 2018, a federal district court judge entered a preliminary injunction ordering the government to “maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis.” On Thursday, the DOJ filed a petition with the Supreme Court, asking the justices to bypass the normal appellate process—which would consist of the government appealing to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before seeking Supreme Court review.

Of significance: In seeking immediate appeal before the Supreme Court, the DOJ did not ask for a stay of the lower-court decision. In other words, the district court’s injunction remains in effect and the federal government must “maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis.”

So, here’s where we are now: No one has been deported under the rescission memo. DHS continues to adjudicate DACA requests and will do so until March 5, 2018. That alone would give Congress plenty of time to act. But beyond those facts, we have a preliminary injunction requiring the federal government “to maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis,” and the DOJ has not sought to stay that injunction. So until the litigation over the rescission memo concludes, DACA remains in effect.

There is no emergency justifying shutting down the federal government. Democrats are posturing in preparation for the 2018 midterms. But unlike prior Republican administrations, when cornered, the current commander in chief doesn’t cave—he turns intransient. Given the reality of the current funding fight, that might just be what Republicans need to finally win the battle of the shutdown. We’ll soon know.

ICE/ERO Doing Its Job Effectively

ICE Arrests 86 'Criminal Aliens' in North Texas and Oklahoma

1/26/2018 - Timothy Meads Townhall.com

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) announced Friday afternoon that they arrested 86 criminal aliens and other illegal immigrants during a three-day enforcement action operation earlier this week. 

Federal officers targeted “criminal aliens” in North Texas and Oklahoma, but arrested other immigration violators, such as those who came into the country legally and overstayed their permission or immigrants who committed criminal acts that would make them eligible for deportation. The press release states that “of the 86 arrested, 55 had criminal convictions; 82 were men and four were women. They range in age from 19 to 61 years old." Those arrested hailed from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Jordan, Laos, Liberia, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, and Zimbabwe. Criminal aliens differ from illegal aliens in that they have been convicted of another crime in the United States in addition to living in the country with authorization.

“Most of the aliens targeted by ERO deportation officers during this operation had prior criminal histories that included convictions for the following crimes: sexually exploiting a minor, assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, drug possession, burglary, obstructing police, larceny, manufacturing methamphetamine, firearms offense, smuggling, receiving stolen property, illegally entering the U.S., and driving under the influence (DUI),” the press release continues. 

“This operation focused on targeting immigration fugitives and criminal aliens in North Texas and the state of Oklahoma, but we routinely conduct operations daily,” said Bret Bradford, field office director of ERO Dallas told the press. “By removing criminal aliens from the streets, our ICE officers provide a valuable community service by improving public safety.” 

A week ago, ICE announced the arrest of 46 criminal aliens and other immigration violators in upstate New York. 

“Operations like this one demonstrate ICE’s continued focus on the arrest of dangerous criminal aliens as well as those who enter the United States illegally,” said Thomas Feeley, field office director for ERO Buffalo, said at the time. “Illegal aliens will not find safe harbor in New York.”

This increased movement by ICE under President Donald Trump is in stark contrast to the previous administration. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a  "Congressional Research Service report released in August 2012 found that over a 33-month period, between October 2008 and July 2011, more than 159,000 illegal aliens were arrested by local authorities and identified by the federal government as deportable but nevertheless released back onto the streets." 

According to last week's press release,  "ICE continues to focus its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security. ICE conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and agency policy. However, as ICE Deputy Director Thomas Homan has made clear, ICE does not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States." 

Another Horrific Example of Criminal Illegal Alien Attitude

Illegal Alien On His Police Killings: ‘I Wish I Had Killed More Of The Motherf**kers’

1/16/2018 - Matt Vespa Townhall.com

 A California judge has to clear the courtroom when a defendant refused to keep quiet during the trial proceedings. It’s been over three years since Luis Bracamontes, an illegal alien who had been arrested and deported multiple times in Arizona, went on a crime spree in Sacramento that ended with two police officers killed. Bracamontes is on trial for the murders and faces the death penalty, his wife, Janelle Monroy, could spend the rest of her life in prison. The Sacramento Bee reported that Bracamontes showed no remorse, said he would escape and kill more people, and said one cop that he killed was a “coward.” His lawyer has questioned his sanity and admitted to the jury that his client was responsible for the deaths of the two police officers, but hopes to save his life with additional evidence that could mitigate the circumstances; Bracamontes was high of methamphetamine when he committed the murders (via SacBee) [emphasis mine]:

Barely two hours into the first day of trial for accused cop killer Luis Bracamontes, the proceedings devolved Tuesday into a spectacle of the defendant threatening to kill more people, giggling as a prosecutor described his 2014 crime spree and his own lawyers once again questioning his sanity.

Just after lunch, a lawyer for the illegal immigrant told the jury that his client in fact did shoot to death Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer Deputy Michael Davis Jr. in a daylong spree of violence that started in a Motel 6 parking lot near Arden Fair Mall and ended in a shootout near Auburn.

“Let me be clear and up front,” said defense lawyer Jeffrey Barbour. “Mr. Bracamontes is responsible for the death of Deputy Danny Oliver and Detective Michael Davis.

“He shot them both.”

[…]

“I wish I had killed more of the mother-------,” he boasted to the jury as prosecutor Rod Norgaard described the 2014 crime spree.

Smiling broadly, Bracamontes added, “I will break out soon and I will kill more, kill whoever gets in front of me...There’s no need for a f------ trial.”

That outburst led to Sacramento Superior court Judge Steve White briefly removing the jury, then warning Bracamontes he could be removed from court.

[…]

As Norgaard described the ambush slaying of Oliver, he recounted how Oliver’s partner, Scott Brown, came under heavy fire as he emptied his 15-round clip at Bracamontes in the Motel 6 parking lot near Arden Fair Mall on Oct. 24, 2014.

Brown retreated under heavy fire, Norgaard recounted. As he talked, Bracamontes grinned and, finally could not restrain himself.

“Coward,” Bracamontes said of Brown, who had just seen his partner killed.

At one point, as Norgaard described the wounding of Jeff Davis (who is not related to slain deputy Michael Davis), Bracamontes interrupted again with, "Cause he's stupid."

That drew a sharp rebuke from the judge: "Be silent."

Again, this is partially why Trump was elected in 2016. It’s these stories that show how our immigration system has broken down. Bracamontes should never have been here. Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer Deputy Michael Davis Jr. would probably still be alive if he didn't hop across the border (again) and commit a crime spree. The families would be spared the killer’s sick enjoyment upon hearing how he killed them in court. The same can be said for Kate Steinle’s family and other families who lost loved ones, murdered by illegal aliens. 

Democrats don't seem to care about this. To some, this is an example of the need to boost enforcement measures, curbing the flow of illegals entering the country, and encouraging legal immigration. To others, like the Democratic Party, fluid borders means more voters of their party. Period. 

I hope justice is done in this case. The Steinle case was an atrocity, with her shooter, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, being found not guilty of most of the charges for the 2015 shooting. He was convicted of the gun charge, but was sentenced to time served. Zarate said the gun, which was wrapped in a t-shirt and belonged to a federal officer, went off while he was on a pier. The ricochet struck Kate Steinle, who was also there walking with her father, killing her.

It’s very simple, folks. If you come here illegally and the authorities catch you, you get the hell out. It’s not hard. We’re a nation of laws. And we finally have an administration that looks to aggressively tackle illegal immigration, so we don’t have to hear any more stories like this one.   

Schumer Shutdown - Democrat Intention in the First Place

Democrats Just Admitted Their Goal is to Shutdown the Government

1/18/2018 - Katie Pavlich Townhall.com

We're just one day away from a government shutdown as Republicans desperately work to find the votes for a stop-gap spending measure on Capitol Hill. All week, Democrats have been pointing fingers at GOP lawmakers and arguing if a government shutdown does in fact happen, it will be all their fault. 

But according to a Democrat aide who spoke to NBC News, the goal is for Democrats to come up with enough votes to stop the funding measure from going through. In other words, they just admitted their goal is to shutdown the government, not to avert it as they've been claiming. They've also put the brakes on any kind of compromise that doesn't include amnesty for illegal aliens currently covered by DACA.

Meanwhile, the White House expressed support Wednesday afternoon for the short-term continuing resolution.

"The President certainly doesn't want a shutdown, and if one happens I think you only have one place to look and that's to the Democrats who are holding our military and our national security hostage by trying to push through other policies that have nothing to do with the budget," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said during the briefing Wednesday. "It takes 60 votes, and Republicans don't have 60 votes.  So Democrats either need to decide that they're going to come here to do their jobs, and they're going to govern, and they're going to put our national security ahead of their own personal, political agendas, or they're not.  It's really simple."

"That's a decision you're going to have to ask the Democrats what's more important -- national security or political agendas?  I can't answer that for you," she continued.

President Trump - Keep Your Promises!

Will Trump Go Sloppy and Soft on Illegal Immigration?

1/15/2018 - Kurt Schlichter Townhall.com

I am absolutely delighted at the fake outrage over Donald Trump correctly assessing much of the Third World as a “Schumerhole.” It’s about time we had some real talk about immigration. For decades, the open borders establishment has tried to blind us with a blizzard of deceptive euphemisms designed to hide the truth. “Dreamers.” “Undocumented workers.” “Nation of immigrants.” Enough!

It’s all a scam designed to allow liberals to shut you up when you raise questions about why we should let our nation be flooded by outsiders – any questions. And they don’t even pretend to be coherent. One day we’re monsters for wanting to send illegals back where they belong, and the next we’re monsters for accurately describing the places they came from. We wonder why, if those Third World wonderlands totally aren’t what Trump said they are, their residents so eager to leave – and not to go back once they get here? And if Dreamers were wonderful hard workers who contribute so, so very much, why can’t they do all that contributing back where they came from?

Sheesh. Can you hacks please settle on a consistent narrative? It’s getting so it hard to even know which lie we’re being told without a program.

Apparently, now we are morally obligated to lie too. Remember, the s-hole furor isn’t because Trump was wrong. It was because he was indisputably right, but no one is supposed to say that because the truth doesn’t fit today’s narrative.

Well, it’s well past time to toss the narrative down what Trump said.

Part of the reason for the freakoutrage over Trump saying out loud what everyone knows, especially those of us who have spent significant time is the scuzzy corners of the globe, is because he came off looking too darn good at his telecast bipartisan meeting. Where was the dementia-addled half-wit of Michael Wolff’s book and a dozen long-distance diagnoses from #resist shrinks all hoping for a 25^th Amendment Hail Mary?

Trump looked in charge and open to negotiation – he looked positively presidential. Gosh, they sure couldn’t let that image – or all the reports of companies issuing bonuses because of tax reform – monopolize the coverage. The media and the establishment needed a new crisis to change the discussion before Good Trump made a lasting impression on the masses.

So this comment got leaked by some Democrat or maybe by some Republican – when it comes to dealing with immigration, it’s often hard to tell the difference. After all, they share the same ultimate objective, if not the same motive. Democrats want to import a new electorate to replace the one that isn’t psyched to turn America into the same kind of socialist you-know-what that the illegals escaped from. The Republicans just want more servile workers to toil in the fluorescent light-lit fields of their corporate donor overlords’ warehouses.

The nice thing is that the leak indicates that they are despairing of Trump rolling over like they hoped and decided to blow it all up and hope he’d get the blame. Oh well.

After the big meeting, conservatives fretted that Trump seemed inclined to give away the store. He could have been folding, but then everything we learned about Trump over the last couple years indicates that he is no dummy – regardless of what his enemies fervently wish. It’s more likely that he understands the key consideration very, very clearly.

If Trump rolls on amnesty – that is, if he makes a DACA deal that doesn’t buy us real reforms today and not one of those “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday” scams where Tuesday never comes – then we dump him.

We’re gone, Mr. President. Nothing personal, but if you shaft us like everyone else has shafted us, we walk. And your enemies will have beaten you – the same ones who stuck you in the back when they broke the confidence of your private meeting.

Now it looks like a DACA surrender is unlikely, especially in light of the feces-pit furor. Good. Maybe the Nice Trump at the meeting was a negotiation ploy. There’s a technique in negotiations where you wave the other side’s objective right in front of them, let them smell it, feel it just within their grasp, and when you get them so invested in the idea that it is about to be theirs, you snatch it back and lay your demands on them in the hopes they’ll feel they’re so close to success that they have to give in.

Or maybe Dreamer-hugger Trump was playing the good cop while Stephen Miller, who is infuriating the surrender caucus by being the proverbial monkey in the wrench, was being the bad cop. It could be a giant mind game with the mindless drones of the legislature.

Maybe. But it’s a dangerous game.

Outsourcing so much of the negotiations and details to the simpering wusses of the GOP House and Senate, who are yearning for some way to do exactly the opposite of what their voters elected them to do, was always risky. Sailor Suit Lindsey Graham and his pals came up with a plan that Trump rejected with the dung-depths comments. If they want a deal, they better come up with a solid bill where Trump gets some trophies. But at the end of the day, Trump gets to either sign on the line that is dotted, or not. And if a bunch of people who shouldn’t be here anyway don’t get to stay here, oh well.

“That would be too darn bad,” the conservatives would say, laughing hysterically.

In case you’re wondering, here’s my deal: Go home.

This leak-fueled bogus scandal over Trump accurately assessing the relative quality of different nations is an important reminder for the president that the people across the table (including some GOP types) are not his friends. They don’t wish him well. They do not want him to succeed. They desperately want him to blow this negotiation, to give them the zillions of new Democrat voters and to mortify his base of support. They want a win-win for them, and a lose-lose for the president.

Don’t be a lose-loser, Mr. President.

Don’t fall for the Nancy Pelosi football scam.

If Trump sells us out, will the media suddenly reward him with positive coverage, like they did for a few hours after the big meeting? Get real. If he signs a bill giving amnesty in exchange for some bull-hole promise of border security down the road, the first thing the media will do is find his outraged supporters. The second thing it will do is find some other outrage du jour and pump that wall-to-wall.

Trump said this. Trump said that. Trump puts ketchup on his steak. Oh wait, that actually was one of 2017’s EVERYTHING IS THE WORST THING EVER spasms.

It’s time for some truth, and Trump spoke it. I hope his failure to speak it at that public immigration meeting was a calculated one. “Dreamers.” Yeah, because all illegal aliens are dreaming of being hard-working, productive Americans. Except the problem is some dream of raping and murdering their hosts. Some dream of getting hole-faced and driving drunk. Some dream of living off the government with a lifestyle they couldn’t attain working back in the old homeland hole.

Some, not all. Some. And “some” is too damn many if you end up burying your little girl.

How about Normals here in America who are dreaming of an elite that will put their interests ahead of those of foreigners?

The Fredocon whiners contend we must hide the ugly truth behind soggy clichés about how hard-working immigrants who are always inevitably every single time hard-working assets to America no matter who they are. But here’s the thing – at best, guy who grew up in a place that left him uneducated and without skills comes to America and he takes that entry level job from an American. So what do we say to that American?

“Sorry, you’re racist for wanting a job.”

We aren’t supposed to tell the truth about the fact that some immigrants add no value to our country, and that some are actively bad. We also aren’t supposed to tell the truth about the fact that some countries are better than others. We aren’t supposed to have any say at all.

Immigration must serve our interests, the interests of Normal Americans, not the interests of Democrat pols who want more pliable voters. Not the interests of corporate hacks who want hordes of uncomplaining serfs. And not the interests of these foreigners. Good luck to them, but their countries are their problem, and we are not the solution.

Immigration must stop benefiting everyone but us Normal Americans.

And for that to happen, the lies have to stop. The deceit has to end. We need to call things by their true names. And sometimes, their true names aren’t nice.

Stay honest, Mr. President. Stay firm. Don’t get suckered. Keep your promises to the people who elected you. And keep telling the truth.

Have Republicans Learned Anything About Democrats?

The GOP Can't Get Burnt on DACA Deal

1/13/2018 - Michael Reagan Townhall.com

Everyone knows something has to be done for America's DACA kids.

Everyone with a good heart or a working brain knows it's not their fault their parents sneaked them into the country when they were kids under 16.

It's true that by law they are illegal immigrants.

But most DACA kids have grown up to become good, law-abiding Americans.

They've gone to school here. They've worked and paid taxes here. They've even served in our military.

Everyone except a few people on the far fringe knows it'd be wrong to deport these 800,000 so-called "Dreamers" -- now or in the future.

As we saw in Washington this week, DACA kids have become a bargaining chip for President Trump in his efforts to get Congress to build a border wall and reform immigration policy.

President Obama created America's DACA kids by executive order in 2012 with his Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, which delayed the deportation of "Dreamers" who signed up for it for two years.

President Trump has already announced his administration's plans to phase out DACA, though this week a federal judge temporarily blocked that executive decision until a bunch of lawsuits challenging it are settled.

Trump and his Republican allies say they want to extend protections for the "Dreamers" as part of a larger legislative bill that also funds the wall and ends chain immigration.

Democrats in Congress say to Trump, "OK, but extend DACA's protections first, then we'll deal with the border wall and other stuff later."

The DACA bar fight is still in the first round.

But already it's a perfect example of how bad the Republicans are at educating the public about what they do in Washington and why they do it the way they do.

In this case, Republicans need to explain to the country why they are insisting on Congress doing DACA and immigration reform together.

The reason is because Republicans remember how badly they were burned by Democrats in 1986, after my father signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, aka the Simpson-Mazzoli Act.

Part one of Simpson-Mazzoli allowed 3 million illegal immigrants to have a pathway to citizenship. That's the only part of the bill people remember today - the so-called "Reagan Amnesty."

But nearly everyone - particularly the mainstream liberal media that thinks American political history started when they woke up this morning - forgets about the second part.

Part 2 of Simpson-Mazzoli was an agreement to secure the southern border - which was never implemented in 1986 or to this day.

That's the memory Republicans are still haunted by today. They have good reason to not trust Democrats to keep their word on border security if they negotiate a two-step DACA-immigration deal.

Now it's up to the president, the speaker of the House and every important Republican in Washington to explain to the public why it's so important for DACA and border security to be done together.

The mainstream media will never fairly or fully explain the Republicans' position on their own, but if President Trump starts talking and tweeting about it, they'll have to.

If Trump can bring enough attention to the GOP side of the immigration debate, a win-win bipartisan deal might be possible.

The Republicans will have to cave on DACA and the Democrats will have to cave on the border wall.

President Trump has already said he'll be willing to take the political hit to get an immigration reform deal done. Let him.

He doesn't care anyway. He can say or do just about anything.

The worst that can happen to him is that in 2020 he has to go back to being a billionaire.

Another Take on Illegal Immigration - Interesting

'Stable Geniuses' Needed to Tackle Immigration Challenges

1/9/2018 - Rachel Marsden  Townhall.com

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Canada is bracing for U.S. President Donald Trump to terminate the temporary protected status of about 200,000 Salvadorans living in America, just as he did last year with Haitians, Nicaraguans and Sudanese, who had been granted the privilege because of a natural disaster in their homeland (or war, in the case of the Sudanese). Canadians could really use their own "stable genius" instead of a leader who's overly focused on how he's perceived by people who are so hopelessly deluded that they've abandoned basic self-preservation instincts.

"A very stable genius" is what Trump called himself in a tweet last week fired off in response to cable news pundits filling their echo chamber with speculation that Trump might be a few French fries short of a combo meal.

Let's face it: It doesn't take any kind of genius, let alone a stable one, to tick the right boxes. Nonetheless, this is something that Trump constantly manages to do, unlike those who fancy themselves much smarter than him.

Many on the left constantly struggle to make sound decisions. And I mean leftists, not just the average person who, despite politically correct assertions, tends towards pragmatism and common sense when he's alone with himself. Here's the difference: A true leftist will virtue-signal his illogical and self-defeating leftist values and then actually vote for a candidate who's expected to translate such idiocy into concrete action. By contrast, the average pragmatic voter will tolerate (or even echo) virtue-signaling in polite company in order to keep the peace, but then choose a fellow pragmatist like Trump in the privacy of the voting booth.

So, getting back to the immigration issue ...

Trump is set to boot tens of thousands of temporary immigrants out of the U.S., and a great many of these immigrants are likely to try their luck in Canada. According to the Canadian government's numbers, asylum claims have nearly tripled over the past two years, from 16,115 in 2015 to 45,785 through November 2017. So what is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau going to do?

Two of the primary traits of genius are adaptability and creativity. Someone possessing these two qualities could surely generate solutions to the current immigration quandaries. A true genius would come up with a way to make the surge in asylum requests work to everyone's benefit.

Processing all of these requests costs taxpayers a lot of money. One government department that always requires a lot of money is the Department of Defense. So how about making asylum contingent on refugees paying back the cost of processing, lodging and the financial support that they received by serving the country's defense sector in some capacity? Not everyone would need to be combat-ready, of course. A Defense Department also needs cooks, mechanics, builders, medics, etc. What better way to foster the integration of potential new citizens than with a crash course in their new country's language and values, in a role that requires discipline and service?

Would a stable genius do what Trudeau or Trump predecessor Barack Obama have done with the immigration problem -- that is, sit back and shrug while boring holes in taxpayers' pockets to extract increasing amounts of money for accumulating problems?

French President Emmanuel Macron is shaping up to be a stable genius in his own right. Macron used to openly praise Europe's role in welcoming half the planet on humanitarian grounds. But during a recent public appearance, he told a Moroccan woman seeking asylum in Paris, "If you're not in danger, you have to go back to your country." Macron also said, while addressing the crowd, "France is a generous country, but it cannot accommodate all the misery of the world."

Genius is a trait directly correlated with logic, and Macron's government is thinking logically in preparing to tackle leftist immigration policies in France. Just in time, too. The government office responsible for refugees has announced that it received a record 100,412 asylum requests in 2017 -- double the 2009 figure.

With the usual establishment suspects always eager to set off yet another prolonged conflict that's certain to trigger mass migration (and the accompanying security risks), the only thing standing between chaos and stability are leaders such as Trump, who hasn't had the self-preservation software he was pre-installed with at birth overwritten by a virus of political correctness.

We Are A Nation of Laws- The Constitution

The "Poor Illegal" Media Narrative and Why It's Not Working

8/14/2017 - Arthur Schaper Townhall.com

When I was training to be a teacher, my mentors taught me to be tough at the outset. I learned that to be lenient, to go by compassion rather than consistency, hurts everyone. No one learns anything. The rule of law makes learning, producing, and succeeding possible.

This lesson on learning and discipline illustrates the fundamental good that follows from our President enforcing our nation’s immigration laws. It is not compassionate to Americans or immigrants to allow illegal aliens to ignore our laws. The corruption rampant in Los Angeles County and throughout other major urban areas follows from the arbitrary disregard for our nation’s legal sovereignty and cultural integrity.

The liberal, marginalized national media still wants to push an illegal alien sob story narrative at all costs. Look over the list below of the latest sob stories the national readership endured over the past week (and month):

California pastor caught in immigration enforcement net

Facing deportation, Oakland family pleads for more time

Dreams Deferred: Young Soccer Star, Brother Set for Deportation

Stay, Hide or Leave? Hard Choices for Immigrants in the Heartland

Immigrant heroes save lives

Not one of these headlines admit that those “immigrants” are actually illegal aliens. Like their rabid anti-Trump hatred, the liberal media is obsessively pushing a rigorous pro-amnesty narrative. They want everyone to believe: “Oh, the poor illegals! They haven’t done anything wrong! They’re just humble people doing their best.” Of course, the article about the California pastor did mention that he used multiple false identities to avoid capture and deportation.

Why is the media driven to bully Americans with this “illegal alien good; immigration enforcement bad” narrative? I get to read one sob story after another about immigrants who face deportation and have to struggle with difficult choices. One would think that American newspapers would talk about Americans and the issues affecting them, right? It’s crystal clear that the media wants to depict lawbreakers as tragic victims, even though these illegals have themselves to blame. Yes, we are supposed to condemn the Trump Administration as hard, uncompromising, and unkind executive overreach.

But it’s not working. Last week Ann Coulter wrote an excellent article about Donald Trump's immigration reform proposal--The RAISE Act: enact a point system, lower legal immigration, and put American workers first. Coulter pointed out that the media doesn't want to talk about the RAISE Act because they would have to connect why so many societal ills have exploded in this country: the rising suicide rate among working-class Americans, the raging opioid crisis throughout the country, as well as rising crime rates.

And yet I feel that Ann Coulter still didn't get to the real reasons why. Why is it that The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and other major or what used to be major media outlets are so obsessed with promoting the sob stories of illegal aliens who now realize that they can no longer live in the United States without authorization? Why are we reading these stories?

I submit that the Trump-phobic, amnesty-pandering media publish these stories for the following reasons.

1. The Masters of the Universe running the media are attached to a left-wing, globalist worldview. As large corporate interests, they depend on a larger state and a larger government, which explains their essential hostility to the Trump Administration. Let's not forget that Mexican billionaire Hugo Slim has a major stake in The New York Times.

2. The new generation of journalists have been taught to be propagandists for left-wing causes. They have no profound historical perspective nor knowledge base. They are not objective reporters of fact but subjective propagandists—and they have been applauded for doing so.

3. Corporate interests want cheap labor. Therefore they want amnesty, they fight for open borders, and they want a flooded labor market to drive down labor costs. And guess what? They are the major ad purchasers for liberal media outlets. If these news organs want to print, they need ad revenue, which means any story showing illegal immigration in its proper, negative light gets killed.

4. But what about the conservative media elites who fret over the plight of illegal aliens but ignore the crises of working Americans? The Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby wrote the fifth article listed above. His argument rests on a premise comparing illegal aliens to red-heads. Having red hair is not a crime. Entering the United States illegally is a crime. Jacoby’s argument is one of the most specious illogical and offensive I have read—and from a conservative! Charles Krauthammer has also caved, advocating for legal status for illegal aliens in the US, but not citizenship.

I have to surmise two reasons: they accept the white guilt narrative that America owes The Third World something. Perhaps the same media corporate donors are pressuring these “conservative” columnists. Perhaps they believe that a hard stance on immigration will cause conservatism to wane and lose future elections. Yet Donald Trump ran against that RNC Autopsy report in 2016 and won handily. Also, these columnists are white collar intelligentsia, and they do not experience the consequences of illegal immigration as the rest of us do.

Despite their best sob-story efforts, the liberal media cannot brainwash the nation on illegal immigration. President Trump’s proposed RAISE Act immigration policy secures our borders, ensures a pro-America labor market, and protects American values. Once again, Trump has trumped the progressive left’s media agenda.

Enough with the sob stories. If you break our laws, you pay the price. We have one rule of law, which must stand firm in the United States--and is the reason why so many seek our shores. We are a wonderful country where life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are ample and available. Why? Because we are a nation of laws. President Trump's immigration policy is tough but fair; consistent and yet truly compassionate. Americans have a right to discourage any immigration policy which is partial, arbitrary, based on misplaced, fraudulent compassion.